Multimedia compression is a general term referring to the compression? of any type of multimedia, most notably graphics, audio, and video. |
Multimedia compression is a general term referring to the compression? of any type of multimedia, most notably graphics, audio, and video. |
See also: Digital signal processing |
Because multimedia typically derives from data sampled by a device such as a camera? or a microphone?, and because such data contains large amounts of random noise, traditional lossless compression algorithms tend to do a poor job compressing multimedia. Multimedia compression algorithms, traditionally known as codecs, work in a lossy fashion:
Multimedia compression has become the primary focus of compression research, primarily in a search for more efficient models.
See also: Digital signal processing